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...Pedal Tricycles Sir: . . . Let me join the many who will notice this sentence: "Then he and curly-headed Barbara Anne peddled their tricycles over a stretch of grass made slightly mangy lately by grandfather golfing divots [TIME, March 23]." TIME forgot to say whether the Eisenhower tykes finally sold their trikes. And what will they be pushing next week? WENDELL SMITH Santa Monica, Calif...
...scenes and characters, its anonymous, quick intensities, and it keeps faith with its material. But about much of it there seems something straggling and merely approximate: it lacks form, it needs more expressive detail, more evocative language. And it is coarsened by Joshua Logan's direction, which often pedal-thumps the sex and placards the humor and pathos...
...program ended with a "Concert Study for the Pedal," by one Raphael Manari, a composer so obscure that he is not even mentioned in grove's nearly exhaustive Dictionary of Musicians. All that I know about him is that he was a teacher of the Vatican's present organist. The music is bombastic and superficial. a work by one of the moderns would have been a much more welcome finale...
...playing of excerpts from Debussy's Children's Corner was almost convincing, but not quite. The grace was there, the technique adequate, but the element of inmgination was missing. More extensive use of the soft pedal, and more relaxation would have helped Beyer here...
...Officially, police announced 9 dead, 30 wounded, but the actual death roll was considerably higher. Visitors to the location reported several dozen fresh graves dug in the location cemetery. Government officials pressed the cops to soft-pedal reports of Negro casualties. "Think what [Indian Delegate] Madame Pandit would do with the native death toll at the U.N.," Justice Minister Charles Swart explained...